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One of those is bad, the other isn't by curst 06/03/2005, 12:10pm PDT 1. Who the FUCK wants to FUCK with an inventory screen in a goddamn action game? FUCK that. The more I think about the fundamental concept of "FPS + RPG", the more I dislike the idea. This is one of the major reasons (the other being "skills systems" that ensure that even if your aim is right-between-the-eyes with every shot, you're still going to wind up grazing your enemy for 2HP damage because your pistol skill sucks, never mind that in almost all these game's you're supposed to be a fucking military-trained cyborg or some shit). Is there any better way to completely murder my immersion than to make me juggle inventory items around all day? Action RPGs work because the inventory management is kept to a minimum - in fact, my least favorite action RPG ever, Throne Of Darkness, sucked almost entirely because you had to dick around with inventory shit constantly. No FPS/RPG hybrid has ever figured this simple rule out. Limited inventory bullshit sucked in SS2, it sucked in DX1 even though it was mercifully far less commonplace than SS2, it sucked in Silent Hill 4 (never mind that it's not an FPS/RPG, the key is that the older games didn't have it, SH4 has it, and it does nothing but add frustration), and I didn't miss it at all in DX2. Fuck limited inventory. 2. Except that I do agree that the other parts of the interface aren't as seamless as they should be on the PC version. The design was necessary for the XBox version, but Ion Storm got too lazy to port the thing properly. Er, wait... IIRC, IS's grand vision for DX2 was ensuring that the XBox gamer should have the exact same experience playing the game as the PC gamer. To which I can only say WHAT ARE YOU THINKING, YOU FUCKS. I'm not one to go around screaming 'consolization!', and I won't here either because I do think this problem could and should have been corrected for the PC version, but you can't help but wonder what kind of game it would have been if they never intended to do an XBox version. (Don't you have to hit a key to bring up the "these are your equipped items" HUD and then use the cursor to choose which item you want to equip and then hit an "equip item" key? I forget now but I remember thinking it was ridiculous.)

Playing Deus Ex makes me really fucking paranoid since 9/11 by Entropy Stew 12/26/2002, 2:28am PST     Re: Playing Deus Ex makes me really fucking paranoid since 9/11 by CrackerBarrel 12/26/2002, 3:10pm PST         Re: Playing Deus Ex makes me really fucking paranoid since 9/11 by FABIO 01/01/2003, 5:51am PST             I envisioned that. by penelope 01/01/2003, 6:57am PST                 Steve Miller. (nt) by creativepig 01/01/2003, 11:02pm PST                     elaboration by Ray, of Light 01/02/2003, 3:03pm PST                     Re: Steve Miller. by TAFKAM 01/02/2003, 3:05pm PST                         YOU WANT TO REACH OUT AND GRAB ME, YOU BUTTFUCKIN FAGGOT (nt) by Jhoh Creexul 01/03/2003, 3:03am PST                             After that review? Hey, I'm a starfucker! -nt2003- by TAFKAM 01/03/2003, 9:12am PST             Re: Playing Deus Ex makes me really fucking paranoid since 9/11 by curst 01/03/2003, 11:07am PST     Re: Playing Deus Ex makes me really fucking paranoid since 9/11 by Asmo 01/16/2003, 5:46am PST         The zeitgeist is obviously quite gay -nt- NT by Entropy Stew 01/16/2003, 5:12pm PST     Just finished it by MM Denton 06/02/2005, 12:24pm PDT         Question by MM Denton 06/02/2005, 2:42pm PDT             Not sure. But! by Ice Cream Jonsey 06/02/2005, 2:52pm PDT                 a real ending was too much work by bombMexico 06/02/2005, 4:20pm PDT                     I liked that ending the best by Quentin Beck 06/03/2005, 3:21pm PDT             two of them, actually by FABIO 06/02/2005, 9:09pm PDT                 They also ditched the entire menu and inventory system. by Creexul :( 06/02/2005, 9:17pm PDT                     One of those is bad, the other isn't by curst 06/03/2005, 12:10pm PDT                         Re: One of those is bad, the other isn't by FABIO 06/03/2005, 12:52pm PDT                         Re: One of those is bad, the other isn't by Creexul :( 06/03/2005, 7:05pm PDT                         Re: One of those is bad, the other isn't by Mischief Maker 06/03/2005, 8:51pm PDT                 Re: two of them, actually by Mischief Maker 06/03/2005, 8:39pm PDT             Re: Question by Weyoun Voidbringer 06/02/2005, 9:16pm PDT         Re: Just finished it by Creexul :( 06/02/2005, 9:29pm PDT             Hey, that was actually kind of funny. by Arbit 06/02/2005, 10:50pm PDT                 Re: Hey, that was actually kind of funny. by Creexul :( 06/03/2005, 12:48am PDT                 From the same series by Weyoun Voidbringer 06/04/2005, 11:03pm PDT     Re: Playing Deus Ex makes me really fucking paranoid since 9/11 by Weyoun Voidbringer 06/02/2005, 9:25pm PDT         Re: Playing Deus Ex makes me really fucking paranoid since 9/11 by bink 06/08/2005, 11:18pm PDT             Someone else on this board also thought the internet was constantly policed NT by WHO COULD IT HAVE BEEN? 06/08/2005, 11:24pm PDT                 Straw-man argument. NT by bink 06/08/2005, 11:58pm PDT